COURSE
DESCRIPTION
The
School
of
Physical Therapy
was established in
July 1988, offering a four-year program leading to the degree of Bachelor of
Science in physical therapy.
Physical therapy is an integral part of the
health care system. As a health profession, physical therapy focuses on the
neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, and cardiopulmonary systems of the human body
as these systems are related to human motion and function. The physical
therapist, through multidimensional roles in a variety of settings, is
dedicated to the promotion of health, the prevention of disease, and the
rehabilitation of people disabled by injury or disease. Physical therapy
offers a wide variety of opportunities for professional practice in general
or specialized hospitals, in programs for disabled children, in
rehabilitation centers, governmental agencies, the armed forces, foreign
service, and athletic departments. In addition, career opportunities are
available for teaching in educational programs of physical therapy and
related professions.
To meet the needs of the public, the
School
of
Physical Therapy
strives to provide
optimal patient care through physical therapy education, research, and
practice. The faculty of this School strongly believes that physical
therapists entering the profession should have a thorough understanding of
the theoretical bases for treatment and skills in problem solving,
evaluation, and communication. We also believe that physical therapists
entering the profession should develop skills for life-long learning, such as
the ability of information search and critical analysis of the information.
REQUIRED COURSES
Year
Level: 1st
General Education
Requirements
Semester course: 18 credits in total
Students should take courses related to Languages (6 credits), humanities (4
credits), social sciences (4 credits), sciences (2 credits), and other areas
(2 credits).
Calculus
Semester course: 2 lecture hours, 2 credits
This is a course designed to introduce continuous function, derivation,
maximum and minimum anti-derivative, integration, fundamental theory of
calculus, as well as area volume, transcendental function, Taylor's formula,
infinite series, partial derivatives, multiple integral, and line integral.
Biostatistics
Semester course: 2 lecture hours, 2 credits
This is a course designed to introduce the fundamental concepts and their
application of statistical procedures, with a special focus on popular
approaches to analysis in biological and health care-related researches.
General Biology and Lab
Semester course: 4 lecture and 6 laboratory hours, 6 credits
This is a course designed to introduce the basic phenomena and principles of
animal and plants science.
General Physics and Lab
Semester course: 3 lecture and 3 laboratory hours, 4 credits
This is a course designed to introduce kinematics, static and equilibrium,
dynamics of particle system. Rigid bodies, free, damped, and forced
oscillation, momentum, kinetic energy, potential energy, and their
conservation, gravitation, fluid mechanics and elasticity, waves and
acoustics.
General Chemistry
Semester course: 3 lecture hours, 3 credits
This is a course designed to explain the development of fundamental concepts
and their applications to typical chemical systems, with a special focus on
those involving chemical equilibrium and solution chemistry; introducing the
quantitative analysis, organic chemistry and quantum chemistry.
Introduction to
Biochemistry
Semester course: 2 lecture hours, 2 credits
This is a course designed to introduce the cellular basis of biochemistry,
covering the following topics: the following proteins, structure and function
of enzymes, nitrogen metabolism, amino acid metabolism, chemistry of
carbohydrates and lipids, oxidative catabolism of glucose and fatty acids,
carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, plasma lipoproteins, cholesterol and
atherosclerosis, strategies for protein biosynthesis, biosynthesis of
proteins, molecular cell biology, recombinant DNA, and clinical application.
Introduction to Physical
Therapy
Semester course: 1 lecture hour, 1 credit
This is a course designed to introduce fundamentals of physical therapy,
including the rationale of physical therapy methods in the management of
musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiopulmonary, sports, pediatrics, and
geriatric patients. Discussions of the role of physical therapy in health
care systems are provided.
Year
Level: 2nd
General Education
Requirements
Semester course: 10 credits in total
Students should take courses related to humanities (2 credits), social
sciences (4 credits), other areas (4 credits).
Anatomy and Lab
Semester course: 3 lecture and 9 laboratory hours, 6 credits
Lectures and demonstrations on the macroscopic structure of each organ system
of the human body are arranged, including musculoskeletal, circulatory,
peripheral nervous systems, and introduction to basic neuroanatomy emphasizing neuromusculoskeletal system.
Physiology and Lab
Semester course: 4 lecture and 3 laboratory hours, 5 credits
This is a course designed to introduce the basic organ function of the human
body, including the characteristics of each system and their functional
relationships.
Public
Health
Semester
course: 2 lecture hours, 2credits
This
is a course designed to introduce key concepts in the study of public health.
It critically reviews major theoretical and practical approaches to the
explanation and management of public health. It also presents exemplary cases
to raise students, to attention the key issues of public health in
Taiwan
and in
the world. Students are highly recommended to participate actively in class
discussion. They are required to conduct fieldwork to study public health
issues and present the study results at the end of this course.
Medical Ethics
Semester course: 1 lecture hour, 1 credit
This is a course designed to introduce basic ethical theory combined with a
problem-based learning approach to ethical issues commonly confronting health
professionals.
Applied Physiology in
Physical Therapy
Semester course: lecture hour, 1 credit
As an extension of physiology course, this course introduces the applications
of general human physiology in physical therapy, emphasizing on
cardiopulmonary and neuromuscular system.
Functional Re-education
and Lab
Semester course: 1 lecture and 2 laboratory hours, 2 credits
This is a course designed to prepare students to a holistic approach to their
patients. The knowledge and skills of choosing a relevant evaluation, why and
how to reconstruct the body fitness, wheelchair prescription, and
re-education of motor function, joint protection, energy saving, ADL
independence (with considerations of spasticity, or
non-spasticity), work readiness, bowel, bladder and
sexual functions for the physically disabled persons are given in this
course. Besides, specific re-education for the patients with
cognitive-perceptual-motor dysfunction, burn and bed sore prone conditions,
and elderliness are included.
Kinesiology and Lab
Semester course: 1 lecture and 3 laboratory hours, 2 credits
This is a course designed to introduce students the concepts of human
movement and to identify surface anatomical landmarks of the human body.
Essential topics include the basic concepts of biomechanics, biomechanics of
biological tissue, human joint structure and function, aspect of
neurophysiology and muscle physiology in musculoskeletal control, posture and
gait, structure and function of the upper extremity, lower extremity, and
spine.
Manual Therapy and Lab
Semester course: 1 lecture and 3 laboratory hours, 2 credits
This is a course designed to provide an overview of the theory and
application of manipulation of the peripheral joints and soft tissues “by
hands,” with topics covering arthrology, general
concepts of orthopedic manual therapy, joint mobilization of the extremities
and spine, techniques of therapeutic massage, and their application on
physical dysfunctions.
Therapeutic Exercise and
Lab
Semester course: 2 lecture and 3 laboratory hours, 3 credits
This is a course designed to introduce basic clinical physical therapy skills
and procedures, including measurement of the range of joint motion, the range
of motion exercises, manual muscle testing, functional training, sports
taping, physical fitness, and strengthening exercises.
Clinical Practicum in
Physical Therapy
Semester course: 3 laboratory hours, 1 credit
This is a course designed to provide students hands-on experiences in which
they can apply basic physical therapy skills in a clinical situation.
Clinical practicum of ROM, MMT, functional training,
mobilization, massage, strengthening, and stretching are provided.
Year
Level: 3rd
Neurological Physical
Therapy Assessment and Treatment and Lab I
Semester course: 2 lecture hours and 6 laboratory hours, 4 credits
This is a course designed to integrate the concepts of physical therapy,
anatomy, neurophysiology, and pathophysiology to
establish a scientific framework applied to central nervous system disorders.
Principles of assessment and treatment on patients with cerebral palsy,
mental retardation, spina bifida, spinal cord
injury and cerebellar disorder, based on the
scientific framework, are included. Different therapeutic approaches are
compared and contrasted to develop an integrated model for evaluation and
treatment.
Neurological Physical
Therapy Assessment and Treatment and Lab II
Semester course: 2 lecture and 3 laboratory hours, 3 credits
This is a course designed to address to the physical therapy assessment and
management of individuals with neurological dysfunction with an emphasis on
the relationship of the rehabilitation process and contemporary theories of
motor control. To facilitate learning, a series of case studies that cover
the following pathologic categories: cerebrovascular accidents, traumatic head injury, and degenerative diseases will be examined.
Physical therapy for the elderly is also addressed.
Orthopedics Physical
Therapy Assessment and Treatment and Lab I
Semester course: 2 lecture and 6 lab hours, 4 credits
This is a course designed to integrate the basic principles of orthopedic
physical therapy and to apply in evaluation and treatment of orthopedic
disorders and sports injuries to the extremity. A body of knowledge of
anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, biomechanics, orthopedics, mobilization,
electrotherapy, and basic physical therapy skills is introduced and then
applied in the evaluation and treatment of orthopedic/sports related
disorders. In addition, series of lectures, practices, and case discussions
of orthopedic disorders or sports injuries to the extremity is provided
Physical therapy of the post-surgical and burn patients will also be
discussed.
Orthopedics Physical
Therapy Assessment and Treatment and Lab II
Semester course: 2 lecture and 3 lab hours, 3 credits
This is a course designed to introduce the principles and different
approaches to spinal physical therapy and applications in the evaluation and
treatment of spinal disorders. This course is an extension of the Orthopedic
Physical Therapy I, with an emphasis on spinal physical therapy with
different theories, approaches, and techniques commonly used by physical
therapists.
Cardiopulmonary Physical
Therapy Assessment and Treatment and Lab
Semester course: 2 lecture hours and 3 laboratory hours, 3 credits
This is a course designed to address physical therapy examination and
interventions for cardiovascular and pulmonary conditions on specific
diseases.
Electrotherapy and Lab I
& II
Semester course: 2 lecture and 6 laboratory hours, 4 credits
This is a course designed to introduce the theory and application of various
forms of therapeutic modalities in physical therapy. Therapeutic modalities
include thermal modalities, hydrotherapy, light therapy, mechanical
modalities, electrical modalities, and magnetic field therapy.
Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation
Semester course: 2 lecture hours, 2 credits
This is a course designed to introduce the general principles of the
management of specific disorders in rehabilitation medicine, with a focus on
the philosophy of team approach and the role of each professional in the
management of patients with physically disabilities.
Applied Pathology
Semester course: 2 lecture hours, 2 credits
This is a course designed to introduce the pathophysiology and pathology of the organs and systems of the human body.
Introduction to
Pediatrics
Semester course: 1 lecture hour, 1 credit
This is a course designed to introduce the growth and development, diagnosis
and treatment of children.
Introduction to
Neurology
Semester course: 1 lecture hour, 1 credit
This is a course designed to introduce the neurological functions, diagnosis,
and treatment of neurological diseases.
Introduction to
Orthopedics
Semester course: 1 lecture hour, 1 credit
This is a course designed to introduce the injuries of upper extremities,
hand, lower extremities, spine, and pelvis, as well as fracture, injures and
diseases of soft tissues, and bone tumors.
Introduction to Surgery
Semester course: 2 lecture hours, 2 credits
This is a course designed to introduce the clinical surgery and physiological
monitoring of the patients, preoperation preparation and postoperation care, infection
control, transplantation, plastic, and reconstruction surgery.
Assistive Technology in
Rehabilitation
Semester course: 1 lecture hour, 1 credit
This is a course designed to illustrate the characteristics of assistive
technology, focusing on four major components: humans, activity, assistive
technology, and context. Human disable problems, activity of daily living,
characteristics of assistive technology and environment control will be
examined. After taking this course, students should be able to (1) understand
the framework of assistive technology principles; (2) delineate the characteristics
of assistive technology; (3) use basic human factors and life science
concepts to describe the interaction between person with disabilities and
assistive devices.
Physical Therapy
Administration and Management
Semester course: 1 lecture hour, 1 credit
This is a course designed to provide an overview of administration and
management principles that relates specifically to the practice of physical
therapy. Topics cover department design & organization, personnel management,
policies and procedures, financial management, quality management, marketing,
and related health care policy & regulations. This course also gives
students opportunities to explore different administration and management
models of various practice settings of physical therapy through field visits.
Students are expected to participate actively in class discussion and fulfill
fieldworks.
Assistive Technology in
Rehabilitation Practice
Semester course: 3 laboratory hours, 1 credit
This is a course designed to instruct students to design or search for
suitable assistive devices for the disabled. Before prescribing assistive
devices for patients with disabilities, students should do the initial
assessment of the patient and collect related information. In addition, they
should carefully evaluate the training program, service and delivery
strategy.
Introduction to Internal
Medicine
Semester course: 2 lecture hours, 2 credits
This is a course designed to introduce the diagnosis and treatment of diseases
of human systems.
Introduction of Phamacology
Semester course: 1 lecture hour, 1 credit
This course introduces the drug actions on different systems.
Year
Level: 4th
Seminar on Physical
Therapy
Semester course; 2 lecture hours, 2 credits
This is a PBL course in which students are requested to discuss a variety of
clinical scenarios in small groups using their integrated, didactic knowledge
obtained from the courses taken in their previous studies and clinical
affiliation. Faculty also participates in groups as coordinators and/or
tutors to ensure successful discussions achieving the goals of each clinical
scenario.
Clerkship Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Semester
course: total 30 credits, 42 weeks
This
is a course designed to cultivate and develop clinical competency in the
filed of physical therapy for neurologic,
orthopedic, pediatric, cardiopulmonary, and other medical or surgical
disorders. The students will take three subsets (I, II, III, or IV, V, VI) of
the course and receive supervised internship training in a variety of
clinical settings for 21 weeks to obtain 15 credits per semester. Student
assignment to specific facilities will be determined on the basis of
individual interest and facility availability.
Updated on
2006/09/04
Graduate
Institute of
Physical
Therapy
National
Yang-Ming
University
Applied Biostastistics and Lab
Semester course: 2 lecture and 1 laboratory hours, 3 credits
Overview of elementary statistics and their use in research. Theory and the
application of statistical techniques to clinical trial data. Emphasis on the
use and interpretation of packaged computer routines (SPSS). Discusses
experimental designs utilizing analysis of variance and other research
procedures.
Research Methodology
Semester course: 3 lecture hours, 3 credits
The students will comprehend the concepts, types, and elements of research,
and be familiar with common methods utilized in research, and be able to
design a research study of his/her own interest. At the end of the course,
the students will demonstrate ability to communicate research studies among
fellow professionals through: critiques of article, and writing a research
proposal.
Research Instrumentation
Semester course: 3 lecture hours, 3 credits
Introduction to engineering aspects of the detection, acquisition,
processing, and display of signals from living systems; biomedical
transducers for measurements of force, displacement, and muscle activity;
therapeutic and prosthetic devices. Each student in the class will learn to
collect and process EMG data system.
Clinical Decision Making in
Physical Therapy
Semester course: 3 lecture hours, 3 credits
This course will introduce students to the basic vocabulary, concepts, and
methods of human and population genetics, epidemiology, statistics, public
health, and ethics. Knowledge from each discipline is presented in lecture
and readings, with methods and integrated concepts presented through small
group case discussions. Students are expected to access information from
in-class discussions, textbook and journal readings, and Internet sources.
Neurophysiology
Semester course: 3 lecture hours, 3 credits
This course provides a systematic study of peripheral and central components
of the nervous system with emphasis on electrophysiologic and ionic characteristics of cells, synaptic transmission, the visual and
auditory sensory systems, the autonomic nervous system, and higher brain
function. Advanced exploration of the principles underlying cellular,
sensory, motor and integrative functions of the nervous system.
Seminar I & II
Semester course: 4 lecture hours, 4 credits
Students participate in at least one seminar per week, and can choose from a
variety of talks organized by the various departments and centers. Students
will have a presentation in the end of the course.
Motor Control and Learning
Semester course: 3 lecture hours, 3 credits
Lectures classes providing a conceptual and practical introduction to the
neural mechanisms and performance characteristics of human movement
production and motor learning. Exploration of theoretical perspectives of
motor learning and control, with a focus on contemporary approaches. Surveys
neurological systems involved in perception and motor performance.
Application of specific principles of learning and control of movement to the
teaching of motor skills in daily living activities, physical education and
sport
Readings
and group discussion of the implication of issues raised in the literature. Development of a proposal to study an aspect of motor
behavior.
Advanced Neurological Physical
Therapy
Semester course: 2 lecture and 1 laboratory hours, 3 credits
This course will review the basic principles and historical basis of NDT, and
understand how and why specific handling techniques were developed by the Bobaths. In addition, this course will identify current
theories and assumptions that support and guide the current NDT approach,
understand why it is important to have task specific treatment goals, and
understand why “hands on” treatment is important. In the end of the course,
student will learn how to develop the problem solving abilities for treating
neurologically involved patients based on Bobath approaches
Clinical Pharmacocherapy
Semester course: 2 lecture hours, 2 credits
The purpose of this course is to integrate the pathophysiologic abnormalities of disease states with concepts of drug action and therapy.
State-of-the art pharmacotherapy will be reviewed with pertinent pathophysiology. Emphasis will be placed on drug
preparation selection, dosing regimen design, and therapeutic drug monitoring
to assess the attainment of therapeutic efficacy and avoidance of adverse
reactions. Identification and treatment of significant drug-drug or
drug-disease state interactions will also be covered. |
